Calgary Walking this morning, light snow was still sticking to the embankments along the curbside and puddles had a thin sheet ice, as spring was coming late to the northern Rockies. Calgary continues to be an oil rich boomtown with population now surpassing a million people with low unemployment throughout the province of Alberta, the …
Category: Canada
Wealth Tax
New Orleans There was an interesting piece in the Times, buried in the business section that pointed out pretty clearly that real money to achieve more equity in countries like the USA has to do with taxing wealth not just income. I can remember clearly our effort in Arkansas in the middle 1970’s to maintain a …
Payroll or Payday Loans? Predatory Rates Sweeping Brazil & Mexico Credit Markets
New Orleans For working families payday loans pretty much define predatory lending. A family desperate for money takes a loan against their next paycheck. In years of campaigns ACORN Canada has won increased regulation of such loans in a number of provinces. The story in the United States where financial institutions of all sizes and …